Remote Control: Indian Television in the New Millennium

by Shoma Munshi

What do the TV shows we're watching tell us about ourselves? Television is the single most powerful and dynamic agent of change in India today. It is also the country's most popular and accessible form of entertainment. Remote Control examines three kinds of programming-24x7 news, soap operas and reality shows-that have changed Indian television forever, and analyzes how these three genres, while drawing on different sources, are hybridized, indigenized and manage to ultimately project a distinctively Indian identity. Shoma Munshi's book shows us how everyday reality in India in the twenty-first century shapes television; and how television, in turn, shapes us.

392 pages, ebook

First published December 13, 2012

Reviews

[Nishit Gajjar · Rating 5 out of 5]

Read this book twice. Such a wonderful description of the man living on day-day basis! Right in the middle of the world. No secrets...nothing to hide...no mysticism...no religionism....no spirituality....finally no more questions....!

[Siva Srinivas R · Rating 5 out of 5]

UG

The only tribute to UG would be to be surpass him in his Enliightened Brilliance and yet be unknown to the world. Nothing less.

[Nikhil Sharma · Rating 4 out of 5]

Brawley has written about how it was to live with UG. How it was to witness the acidic tones of his on your ego everyday. How it was to get slapped endlessly by an man in his 90s. How it was to experience the withering away of your beliefs and of your core (if there's any such thing).

Brawley's account tells how UG behaved and how he actually was like a natural man. An honest book about an honest man.